| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: satchel.
As the little train, the next day, lumbered through the
valley of the Eisach, she sat in her corner, reading a
newspaper. Miss Vance dozed, or woke with a start to
lecture on points of historic interest.
"Why don't you look, Lucy? That monastery was a Roman
fortress in the third century. And you are missing
the color effects of the vineyards."
"I can look now. I have finished my paper." Lucy folded
it neatly and replaced it in her bag. "I have read the
Delaware State Sun," she said triumphantly, "regularly,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: feel the boy he had been in the rough days of
the old West, feel the youth who had worked
his way across the ocean on a cattle-ship and
gone to study in Paris without a dollar in his
pocket. The man who sat in his offices in
Boston was only a powerful machine. Under
the activities of that machine the person who,
in such moments as this, he felt to be himself,
was fading and dying. He remembered how,
when he was a little boy and his father
called him in the morning, he used to leap
Alexander's Bridge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: point below hid the hull of the brig from her view. Then she
turned away from the balustrade, and, passing slowly before the
door of her father's room with her eyelids lowered, and an
enigmatic expression on her face, she disappeared behind the
curtain.
But instead of going along the passage, she remained concealed and
very still on the other side to watch what would happen. For some
time the broad, furnished verandah remained empty. Then the door
of old Nelson's room came open suddenly, and Heemskirk staggered
out. His hair was rumpled, his eyes bloodshot, his unshaven face
looked very dark. He gazed wildly about, saw his cap on a table,
'Twixt Land & Sea |
